A “strong testament” from The U.S. Review of Books
Thank you, Nicole Yurcaba
Also examined:
A pod of baby dolphins surrounded the raft. They leapt as they swam, shrinking in order to sail through the spaces in the deck and back into the sea, where they grew. — Carlie in As Far as You Can Go Before You Have to Come Back
Yurcaba writes: “The dolphins and their forward movement serve as a metaphor for Carlie’s personal progress as she navigates life.”
I did not consciously use nature as a theme; I relied on Tai chi. — which is the healing modality embedded in the novel. However, Tai chi is all nature, based on the Five Elements of Traditional Chinese medicine: Fire, Water, Wood, , Earth, and Metal (which some see as Rock).
I so appreciate any reader who discovers something in the novel that I didn’t intend.
I heard Salman Rushdie speak, once. During his research of the time-period in which he was setting his novel, a woman existed who his main character very much reflected. He had already written a good chink of his novel. He felt as if he was really “onto something.”
With observations such as Nicole Yurcaba’s, the something I feel onto, is that which all writers should be striving for: a universal.
